Need help with FTP

jkgohan · Post by **jkgohan** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:33 pm

Hey i used to use CuteFTP 7 i think , and i got the new one CuteFTP Pro...and when i go to upload my first video in it, i cant get it to work. Is there a step-by-step tutorial or somethign that will guide me though the whole thing, cause i dont know wat im doing wrong but at very end of the upload it brings up a message about replacing old file or something and then restarts again...

1.I have promision from site
2.I used info to log into FTP after a couple times of it not logging me in
3.Its not over size
4.I need help, plz

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:42 am

if you really want to get the amv up you might want to consider using Firezilla for the time being (until you figure out what's wrong)
other than that I don't know too much about CuteFTP ^_^;;

jkgohan · Post by **jkgohan** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:28 am

Worth a try thx man.

jkgohan · Post by **jkgohan** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:38 am

here is my try and it did the same thing as my Cute FTP just in a differnt way....

1.I open a new FTP site and i put in the stuff they gave me
2.I find my file on the left and double clickand it brings up a DL looking bar at bottom box
3.That bar finshes then i close out and go to Comfirm Video at the AMV site, and i get this....this is how i did it allt he times before tho. and never got this

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I didnt mean to create a sub place or anything i dont even know how it messed up, i just doing wat i always done to upload them though a FTP

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If this didnt help any, u can tell me wat to take screen caps of fand ill post there here?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:56 am

Might be worth your time to bring the .avi out so it's just in "My AMV's".
Be sure to check your file to see that it's the right filesize; There have been a couple of times where my FTP killed my 58MB file...it ended up being about 100 KB.
I'd also advise you to scan for ad-ware and viruses.

hope that works

Org Profile · Post by **Phade** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:10 pm

Hey jkgohan,

It looks like you are dragging the folder containing the video instead of the video itself. In the screenshot here:

http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... opy4cs.gif

...the file listing window is obscrured. If you drag up the horizontal bar just above where the words "2 files with [number] bytes" are cut in half, you can see the list of files in the directory. Drag the file into the root folder (the one that comes up whenever you first connect to the FTP server). Once you've done that, the system should work for you.

I hope this helps.

Phade.

Coderjo · Post by **Coderjo** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:33 pm

jkgohan wrote:here is my try and it did the same thing as my Cute FTP just in a differnt way....

1.I open a new FTP site and i put in the stuff they gave me
2.I find my file on the left and double clickand it brings up a DL looking bar at bottom box
3.That bar finshes then i close out and go to Comfirm Video at the AMV site, and i get this....this is how i did it allt he times before tho. and never got this

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I didnt mean to create a sub place or anything i dont even know how it messed up, i just doing wat i always done to upload them though a FTP

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If this didnt help any, u can tell me wat to take screen caps of fand ill post there here?

To fix the current upload, you can drag the file in the "remote site" pane up to the ".." folder and drop it there. This will move the file up the root directory. Then, double-click on the ".." folder, right-click on the folder named "Bebop-BlackLabel-InThisRiver" and select "delete" from the menu that will appear. This will leave you with a file named "Bebop-InThisRiver2.avi" in the directory named /.

You can then close FileZilla and go back to try and confirm the video again. Phade's post about the overly-small pane will help you out in the future.

jkgohan · Post by **jkgohan** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:42 pm

This is all nice and all, and i have to be honest, im totaly lost...i pulled up the bar and it has a folder with no name, i drug the file on the right (AVI file) into that folder and its doing a transfer now...is there any way that u can guide me though afte ri start it all over..like is there a big tutorial? and if i can start it all over and just upload the file when tis on my desktop will that help?

jkgohan · Post by **jkgohan** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:44 pm

Dont kwno why but i just went into the folder that holds my AMV and its only 156kb ..... didnt someone say somethign about that. I dotn know why but it used to be easy to use these things then like a month later its impossible for me to get it to work again

Coderjo · Post by **Coderjo** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:20 pm

jkgohan wrote:This is all nice and all, and i have to be honest, im totaly lost...i pulled up the bar and it has a folder with no name, i drug the file on the right (AVI file) into that folder and its doing a transfer now...is there any way that u can guide me though afte ri start it all over..like is there a big tutorial? and if i can start it all over and just upload the file when tis on my desktop will that help?

On the left side, FileZilla is showing you stuff on your computer. On the right side, it is showing you what is in the current directory on the server. Dragging a file or folder from the left side to the right side will upload that file or folder to the server. Dragging a file or folder from the right side to the left side will download the file from the server to your hard drive.

On the left side, the top (of the two on the left) pane is showing you the folders on your computer. The bottom (of the two on the left) is showing you the files inside that folder. When you upload your AMVs to the Org local hosting, you will want to drag the file from the bottom (of the two on the left) pane to the right side.

I asked you to drag the file that was on the right side onto the ".." folder that was also on the right side. This tells the server to move the file without having to delete it and then re-upload it.